Shuanglong Village is very simple, the houses are all built with mud and branches, even the façade of the village is also built with rough wood, the soldiers are even poorly equipped, the weapons in their hands are relatively inferior spears and knives, most of them wear cloth armor, many people hold bows and arrows, one by one with vegetables, the open space in the village is full of vegetables, there is a wheat field on the back hillside, a group of chickens are scurrying in the woods.

In the clearing, rows of wooden shelves hung with various furs and brightly colored feathers, several soldiers slaughtering a newly hunted wild boar, surrounded by a group of children, and in another wooden house without walls, a dozen women were weaving homespun cloth.

Yan Qing followed Guan Sheng to the Juyi Hall, where there was a crude homemade large table, with seven or eight wooden piers on both sides as chairs, and two wide chairs directly above, each covered with a tiger skin.

"The conditions are not good, just sit down!"

Guan Sheng asked Yan Qing to sit down, and asked the soldiers to bring two bowls of water, he smiled bitterly and said: "There is no tea in the cottage, so I have to ask you to drink some mountain spring water, the taste is not bad!" ”

Yan Qing picked up the pottery bowl and drank a sip of water, he was a little strange, since he was robbing merchants, how could there be nothing in the village?

Guan Sheng understood his thoughts, so he smiled and said: "Don't think that this is still Liangshan, we intercept the caravan and only take food and salt, and do not rob other property, we mainly rely on hunting for a living, so the officers and soldiers will no longer come to harass us, and everyone will be safe." ”

"How could Brother Guan be in Jingcheng? I remember that the eldest brother's house was not in Zhao County? Yan Qing asked puzzled.

"It's hard to put into words!"

Guan Sheng sighed lowly, "I was captured by Li Yanqing and released in the Daimyo Mansion, I returned to Zhao County to farm, support my mother, and support my family, but I passed two years peacefully, and then Song Jiang rebelled again, and sent people to Zhao County to find me out of the mountain, I didn't agree, and he did as he did when he forced Lu Junyi, and reported my rebellion to the government, as a result, I was wanted by the government, and my mother also died of illness, I was desperate, and I didn't want to go to Song Jiang, so I took my wife and children to Jingcheng as a hunter, and later my whereabouts were exposed, I simply recruited a dozen poor hunters to go up the mountain and fall into the grass. ”

"Then why did Hua Rong come?"

"He followed Song Jiang to rebel again, and as a result, the army was completely annihilated in the Daimyo's Mansion, Song Jiang committed suicide by taking poison, Hua Rong ran to me in desperation, and heard that I was in Jingcheng and fell into the grass, and he also found it, so Sheephorn Village was renamed Shuanglong Village."

"The eldest brother was the five tiger generals of the forbidden army in front of the palace back then! Are you willing to fall into the grass like this for the rest of your life? ”

After Gao Yu took charge of the forbidden army in front of the palace, he liked to arrange the ranking of martial arts, and made a ranking of the five tiger generals of the double dragon, the double dragon refers to the iron stick Wang Jin and the copper bow and iron arrow Zhou Dong, and the five tiger generals refer to the leopard head Lin Chong, the golden gun general Xu Ning, the big knife Guan Sheng, the double gun general Dong Ping and Xiao Li Guanghuarong.

Now in the forbidden army in front of the palace, except for Xu Ning and Dong Ping, the others are dead and gone, Guan Sheng and Hua Rong have always had a deep friendship, they were captured and surrendered when they followed Gao Yu to crusade against Liangshan, and after six or seven years, both of them were ruined and discredited, and they had to fall into the grass.

Guan Sheng sighed and said: "Hua Rong and I were deeply hated by Gao Yu, originally I didn't participate in Song Jiang's rebellion again, but because of Gao Yu's jealousy, I was also among the eighteen major Kou lists arrested by the imperial court, and I was actually ranked fourteenth, what else do you think I can think in this life?" ”

Yan Qing sighed and said: "Don't hide it from my eldest brother, I am actually one of the big men who are wanted by the imperial court, but because of the attack on Yanjing, I have been pardoned by the imperial court, and I have also been named the captain of the seven-rank Zhaowu school, and served as the general of the Jingzhao Army scout battalion, I have been rewarded with more than five hundred taels of gold and 1,500 acres of fertile land for my military exploits alone, and I also bought a five-acre house in Hangzhou, as well as Hu Sanniang, she is now a partial general of the female barracks, and is the younger sister of Li Dutong, even I can make meritorious contributions and receive officials, not to mention the eldest brother and Hua Rong, you and Li Dutong have a good relationship, why don't you go to Li Dutong? ”

Guan Sheng said half-loudly: "Actually, I have also considered it, but because of Gao Yu, I am afraid that Li Dutong will not accept us." ”

"Brother Guan is very wrong to think like this, Li Dutong is promoted by the teacher, his background is a meritorious family, and it has nothing to do with Gao Yu at all, Li Dutong is now thirsty for talent, and his subordinates are extremely lacking in martial arts and strong generals, as long as they have real skills, they can be reused, with the martial arts of Brother Guan and Hua Rong, they will definitely be valued by Li Dutong, and now the Great Song Dynasty is making every effort to resist the invasion of the Jin soldiers, this time is a great opportunity for the national merit and re-recognition by the imperial court, even if it is for the country to die in battle, you can also go to see your ancestors without shame, Brother Guan wants to seize this opportunity! ”

The days of falling grass are really difficult, Guan Sheng has considered finding another way out more than once, but he has not been able to find a suitable opportunity, meeting Yan Qing today, so that Guan Sheng also saw the opportunity to get out of the current situation, he pondered for a moment and said: "Let me discuss it with Hua Rong, and I will give Brother Xian another answer!" ”

Yan Qing was still unsatisfied, and persuaded Guan Sheng: "Now I am ordered to investigate the situation of the Jin soldiers in Tumen Pass, it is very likely that I will encounter the Jin soldiers patrol, this is actually Brother Guan's meritorious opportunity, don't hesitate anymore." ”

Guan Sheng nodded, got up and went out, after a while, Hua Rong and Guan Sheng walked in, Guan Sheng smiled: "We have a sentry post in Tumen Pass, which is generally used to keep an eye on the caravan, and just now there was a news from the sentry post that a Jurchen cavalry of two thousand people entered Tumen Pass two hours ago. ”

Hua Rong said calmly: "Even if you don't come to persuade us today, we will ambush the Jurchen cavalry this time, and now we are even more duty-bound." ”

Yan Qing was overjoyed, although Guan Sheng and Hua Rong said it very implicitly, they were actually expressing their willingness to follow him to Li Dutong, and Hua Rong's meaning was that ambushing the Jurchens was their vote.

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It is about one hundred and twenty miles from Tumen Pass to Giethoorn Village, even the cavalry will take a day, and there is still plenty of time for Yan Qing and them, but how to ambush this 2,000-strong cavalry makes them think about it for a while.

The other party is two thousand elite cavalry, and the Song army scouts are only fifty people, although they are well-equipped, but after all, the number is too small, among the more than one hundred and fifty people in Ssangyong, there are more than forty women and children, and there are only 100 young people who can really fight, and the weapons and equipment are extremely backward.

The only thing to do is to rely on the terrain to stop the enemy as much as possible, of course, each scout brought three iron fire mines, and five sky-shaking mines, but this igniter was not enough to annihilate two thousand enemy troops.

The soldiers of Shuanglongzhai are not useless, they also have an advantage, that is, they are familiar with the terrain and field warfare, plus they are almost all hunters, and they have a natural advantage in mountain combat.

Guan Sheng found an excellent place to ambush, that is, a pass five miles northeast of Sheephorn, which is also known as Niangzi Pass.

It's a pity that the pass has never been repaired since the Sui and Tang dynasties, it has been very dilapidated, there is not even the gate of the pass, the Great Wall on the mountain beams on both sides has collapsed, but the terrain to the east of the Niangzi Pass is very favorable to the Song army, the road is very narrow, the cavalry can not be parallel, and the carts can not be staggered.

If two caravans carrying goods were to travel opposite each other, one caravan would definitely wait outside the city of Niangzi Guanxi first, and they would not be able to pass until the oncoming caravan cart passed through Niangzi Pass.

This narrow mountain road is about more than 20 miles, Niangzi Pass is located in the only open place of this narrow mountain road, after Niangzi Pass and then go west for a mile, Jingcheng will suddenly open up, enter the Peach Valley Basin.

At noon, the Song army scouts and a hundred village soldiers arrived at Niangzi Pass, Niangzi Pass is built according to the mountain, one side is a cliff, the other side is an abyss, the west is a relatively open flat bottom, there were originally some buildings, but the buildings have been destroyed, only some ruins remain, a family in Giethoorn Village has set up a snack stall here all the year round, and the business is quite prosperous.

The pass is made of bluestone, although it is old and covered with moss, it still looks very strong, but the gate of the gate hole and the tower on the city have disappeared, and only a bare stone city pass remains.

One hundred and fifty people immediately began to load sandbags after arriving at Niangzi Pass, the ruins of the building just became the best material to fill sandbags, there were a large number of sacks in Shuanglong Village, and soon set up three sandbag walls at a hundred, seventy and forty steps away from the Guancheng, and threw tens of thousands of thistle thorns within one hundred and fifty steps, and the city cave was also blocked by sacks filled with mud and sand.

The Song scouts went up to Guancheng, while the soldiers of Shuanglongzhai climbed the cliffs on the side, condescending, and ambushed in the midst of the lush bushes.

The time slowly came to dusk, and the stalls selling snacks had already run back to the village to report that the Jin soldiers were about to kill, and the people in the village fled into the mountains in a hurry to take refuge.

At this time, it is the hottest summer season of the year, the sun has already set, but the air is still stuffy and unbearable, as if staying in the steamer, the mosquitoes in the mountains are raging, biting the soldiers are incomplete, just when the soldiers can not bear it, there is a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, everyone can't help but be shocked, they have opened their bows and arrows, waiting for the fighters.

The mountain road near Niangzi Pass is a little wider, and it can already accommodate three or four cavalry in parallel, only to see a long cavalry in the distance winding like a long snake, and quickly galloping towards Niangzi Pass.